The BIRG /CORF memes are ripe for weaponization against the right's current populist tactics by psychologically describing it. Racists BIRG by associating themselves with the intellectual achievements of other whites, and CORF by obessing about "degeneracy" and dehumanizing other races, classes, and beliefs. The cult of Trump is built upon BIRGing, by "winning" by associating the self-serving victories of an immoral narcissist with their own victory. Patriotism itself is BIRG identity politics.
Elijah Bennett
What's CORF?
Carson Wood
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Elijah Bailey
Interesting find, OP. I know scores of people like this, but I never thought they had a name.
Jaxson Sanders
Burger + BIRG = BIRGer We can not miss this opportunity. We need our best researchers on this immediately.
John Ortiz
but he was a [[[Swede]]] we wuz kangz
Benjamin Clark
You never thought to call them faggots?
Levi Robinson
Totally natural and something everyone should be wary about.
Imagine your worst co-worker. He may be important and fulfilling a role, but imagine your worst.
Now, imagine that you are doing something important outside of work. Why not a book release? Would you have them attending the book release and be "buddy-buddy" with you, or would you rather have them someplace else?
The flipside is that you may be that person that someone else doesn't want to ruin *his* style. And I recognize that. If some workmate mentions that he's going to have a book release or even DJing and he has neither invited me nor am I interested it, I won't show up.
Lincoln Bailey
If I had a punk band they would be called National Razor and we would have an album called Basking In Reflected Glory/Cutting Off Reflected Failure, the first track would be called Basking in Reflected Glory and the last track Cutting Off Reflected Failure, the main single like the anthem crowd pleaser would called Falling Rate of Profit
Kevin Diaz
I don't want to go all human nature, but these behaviors seem to be very much human nature. Chimpanzee mindset.
James Martin
So is shitting.
Xavier Cook
It is, and you should do it daily. Otherwise see a doctor.
Josiah Hill
You could argue every faulty form of reasoning in humans is their nature. For instance, people have confirmation and negativity biases. In science, people don’t throw up their hands when this happens, though. They do double blind studies to rule it out and make sure it doesn’t affect their work.
Joshua Foster
Is BRIG and CORF faulty reasoning, though? If you are aiming for individual success in say, a workplace, what works best - universal empathy, or sucking up and kicking down?
Brody Brown
It’s context specific. Most of these things are like vestigial tails. They were important once for survival in the wild. Negativity bias would have served to protect ones self from rival groups or natural threats, when no other information was available. I suspect BORG plays a similar role. It’s still faulty reasoning if we actually care about our own accomplishments.
Juan Nguyen
*BIRG
Ryder Mitchell
I also am not seeing how this relates to BORG, since it’s about how people internally view themselves rather than individual action. I could suck up to my boss for reasons that aren’t necessarily about BORG
Robert Lee
Let's put it this way then. It's irrational to actually believe in BIRG or CORF, that the accomplishments of others and your distance to them reflects on your own accomplishments, and to receive neural pleasure from it. At the same time, they might be rational stratagems to follow in social situations, which is likely why they evolved in the first place. At any length, it's all a bit too far out there to actually use as a good insult or anything.
